Ellen DeGeneres Honored With MarkTwain Prize for American Humor

In case you didn’t know, Ellen DeGeneres is funny, but she wasn’t the one making people laugh tonight at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Instead, the talk-show host’s friends and colleagues —including Jane Lynch, John Krasinski, Jason Mraz and Kristen Chenoweth—gathered to honor the funnywoman for becoming the 15th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Emma Watson talks to Ellen about dating

“I’m flattered. It’s fantastic. Of course I think, ‘What took so long?'” she joked on the red carpet, according to USA Today. “You don’t do it for awards, you do it to make people happy.”

“I am very, very proud of Ellen. She’s not only the funniest person I know, but she’s such a good person,” Ellen’s wife, Portia de Rossi said.